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Inly, 1774. His death was much regretted by Catherine 

 II. I who made a liberal provifioii for his widow. 

 • His works are; " Hiltoria Fucorum,'' printed at Peterf- 

 burgh in 176S, 410.; a fubjctl to which botanifts liad 

 paid little attention before him. " Reifen durch Riifsland, 

 &:c. ;■' or. Travels through RulTia, for the purpofe of ex- 

 ploring the three kingdoms of nature. This work was 

 pubhfhed in feparate parts, as follows : — Part I. Journey 

 from St. Pcterlburgh to Tfchcrkaflc, in the years 1768 and 

 1769. Peterfburgh 1 77 1 with thirty-two plates. Part II. 

 Journey from Tfcherkafk to Ailracan, from Augull 1769 

 to June 1770; ibid. 1774, with forty plates. Part III. 

 Journey through the northern diftrifls of Periia, from that 

 period to April 1772 ; ibid. 1774, with fifty-one plates. — 

 Part IV. edited after the author's death, by profeiTor Pallas, 

 Journey from Allracan to Czarizyn ; and alfo a fecond 

 Perfian Journey, 1772-74; ibid. 1786, with eighteen 

 plates. The various and important information, contained 

 m thefe publications, renders the imperfeftions of the 

 llyle of this author of little moment. Gen. Biog. 



GMELINA, in Botany, received its name trom Lin- 

 ukus, in honour of Jphn George Gmelin, a native of Tu- 

 bingen, profeflbr of chemiftry and natural hidory at Pe- 

 terlburg, who fpent ten years in travelling through Siberia, 

 at the expence of the Ruffian government, and v/liofe Flora 

 Sibirka, in four vols, quarto, with plates, is a book of great 

 reputation and merit. The firll and fecond volumes were 

 publifhed in his lifetime ; the third and fourth long after his 

 death, which happened in 1755, at the age of 46. He 

 took his arrangement from Van Royen. Haller fays the 

 plates are unworthy of the beautiful drawings, which he 

 himfelf had feen. — This genus alfo ferves to commemorate 

 four or five more botanifts of the fame family, efpecially 

 Samuel Theophilus Gmelin, nephew of the fonner, and his 

 fucceflbr in" the profelTorrtiip, who publiilied a H'ljlonci Fu- 

 corum, with plates, in 1768, one of the moil popular books 

 on fubrharine botany, and who died in 1774, aged 31. — 

 Linn. Gen. 315. Schrcb. 412. Willd. Sp. PI. v. 3. 313. 

 Mart. Mill. Did. v. 2. JufT. 108. Lamarck. 'llluftr. 

 tr; 542. Goertn. t. 56.' (Michelia; Amman, in Atl. Pe- 

 trop. V. 8. 218. t. 18.) — Clafs and orAcr, Didynamia Angi- 

 ojpcrm'ia. Nat. Ord. Perfonattt, Linn. Vh'ices, JufT. 



Gen. Ch. Cell. Perianth Verv fmall, inferior, of one leaf, 

 nearly globular, with four imall unequal teeth, permanent. 

 Cor. of one petal, ringcnt, inflated ; its limb four-cleft ; 

 the upper fegmcnt large and vaulted ; lower, and lateral 

 ones, fmaller, obtufe, rounded, fpreading. Stam. Filaments 

 four ; the two iippermoft thicker and ihorter ; two lower- 

 moil curved upwards ; anthers two-lobed ; two of them 

 fometimes fmaller and fimple. P^i. Germen fuperior, 

 roundifli or obovate ; ilyle as long as the longer ilamens, 

 afcending ; ftigma acute. Pf/vr. IJrupa ovate, of one cell. 

 Nut obovate, fmooth, of three cells, the lowermoft abortive. 

 Seuh folitarj'. 



EiT. Ch. Calyx v.-ith four (light teeth. Corolla four- 

 cleft, ringent, bell-fiiaped. Anthers cloven. Driipa (ui)e- 

 rior. Nut of two fertile cells. 



I. G. nf.atica. Linn. Sp. PI. 873. Durm. InJ. 132. 

 (Jambufa fylveftris parvifolia ; Rimiph. Amb. v. 1. 129. 

 t. 40.' — Leaves roundifh, fomewhat three-lobed, acute, 

 downy beneath. — Native of Java, Amboina', and other parts 

 of the Eail Indies. A tree, with ftraight, roundifli, flightly 

 <lowny branches. Leaves oppofite, fcarccly t«o inclies 

 long, of a roundilh or elliptical form, aonle, moll gene- 

 rally furnifhed with a flioit broad lobf at each l;de, entire ; 

 fmooth above ; pale and downy beneath ; the midrib lending 

 ^ tivo principal lateral ones, u-!iltlc above its bafe, and !<■- 



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veral fmaller ones higher up, all which are branched, yoo/. 

 Jlalks downy, various in length, often nearly equal to the leaf, 

 each with a fmall hairy bud above its inierlion, and above 

 that ufually a llraight, downy, iiorizontal fpine. Flo-wert 

 in a (hort, fimple, downy, terminal racemuj. Ca/jx downy, 

 beiprinkled with fcveral large, fliield-Uke, Ijnooth glands. Co' 

 rolla large, yellow. 



Rumpiilus's figure unqueflionably belongs to this plant, 

 but his defcription feems that of an Eugenia. Plukenet'f 

 t. 305. f. 3. is certainly GarJema dumetorum, and refembles 

 our Gmelina only in being thorny ; his t. 97. f. 2. may pcif- 

 fibly be intended for Gmelina parvifolia, but is of no ufe at 

 to determining it. 



2. G. elliptica Leaves elliptical, undivided, obtufe, 



downy beneath. Thorns none. — Native, we prefume, of 

 the Eail Indies, confounded in the Linnxan lierbanum with 

 the foregoing, from which it difl'ers in having rather larger 

 leaves, which are exactly elliptical and blunt, more dcnleljr 

 downy beneath, and not lobed. Tiierc are no traces of 

 thorn.i. The irjlorefcence is rather more compound, but the 

 remarkable glandular calyx is the fame. If a variety it m a 

 very extraordinary one. 



3. G. parvifolia. Roxb. Corom. v. 2. 31. t. 162. (G. 

 coroinandelica ; Burm. liid. 132.) — Leaves obovate, undi- 

 vided or tlu-ee-lobed, fmooth on both iides.— Common la 

 every forelt and uncultivated place on the coall of Cororaan- 

 del, flowering in Oclober and November. Rcxburgh. It is 

 often intermixed with G- ajiatica, from which it differs ia it» 

 more humble fize, larger and conllant thorns, and efpecially 

 in its fmaller leaves, which arc fmooth on both fides. Their 

 fiotvers and fruits are alike, the latter being yellow, obovate, 

 the fize of a fmall cherry. We perceive on one calvx id 

 our fpccimen a folitary gland, like thofe defcribtd in the 

 two former. — Ur. Roxburgh mentions that cold water, 

 ftirred with a leafy branch of this flirub, becomes thick, 

 from the abundant mucilage of the leaves, and is ufed ip 

 that flate as a remedy for the heat of urine which accompa- 

 nies gonorrhcca. Water llirred with branches and leaves of 

 Pedalium Murex becomes in like manner mucilaginous, an^ 

 is ufed for the fame purpofe, but foon lofes its confiftency^ 

 which is not the cafe with fuch as is prepared with this Gtre- 

 lina. Tiie Telingas call the plant Shieri goomoodoo. It may 

 poiTibly be Plukenet's Lycium Maderafpatjr.um, t. 97. f. j, 

 as Burmann takes it to be, but Sloane's Rhamnus, Hill, of 

 Jamaica, v. 2. t. 207. f. I, cannot be the fame, though 

 his vile figure affords no dillind indication of what V% 

 means. ' ■ 



4. G. arborea. Roxb. MSS. (Cumbulu ; Rheede Kort. 

 Mai. V. I. 75. t. 41.) — Leaves heart -Ihaped, lindtvidedi 

 pointed, downy beneath ; their lateral ribs cloven^ .Thorns- 

 none. — Sent from the coall of Coromandel by the Rev, 

 Dr. Rottler, with the above name of Dr. "Roxburglu 

 GxTtner has molt iulUy pointed out the Cumbulu of Rlieedf^ 

 as A Gmelina, though quoted by Liimxiis, doubt'.ngly in- 

 deed, for his Bignonia Catalpa. Tliis is a tall and uprigljj, 

 tree, growing in faiidy ground, with downy branches, and 

 large," oppofite, ilalked,"heart-lhaped, entire leaves, dowTiy 

 and veiny beneath. Thoriis none, as far as we, can le3ni,_ 

 The Jlowers are numerous and handfome, jtUow, growing 

 in compound, hairy, terminal cluilers. Fruit yellow, obo- 

 vate, rather imall. 



y. G ? iridica. Bur.n. Iiid. 132. t. 39. f. 5. {Dory Zctr 

 Lu, of the Malays. ) Leaves alternate,. heart-lhapcd, cicnate ,. 

 fmooth on both lides. — Native of Java. Herb. L'um. A 

 Ihruh o\- tree, with round, fomewhat zig-zag, flight ly do wnj. 

 'branches. Leaves fnim half au inch to an inch biig, altcr- 

 jiate. on fluirt Iv.iirv lUilk;:, veinv, bluntly ^axnalc. I'uertu 

 3 C J llraight. 



